Patents by Inventor Tomokazu Iwasaki

Tomokazu Iwasaki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170239016
    Abstract: A linear member transfer apparatus includes: a linear member housing portion having a bottomed cylindrical shape and including: a bottom portion; an opening; a side wall; a restriction portion that is a diaphragm disposed on a position at a predetermined distance from the bottom portion and that has an inner diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the bottom portion; a first chamber configured to house a linear member in a wound state; and a second chamber configured to house the linear member in an extended state; a transfer portion configured to transfer the linear member; and a guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu IWASAKI, Hideto ONISHI, Akihisa OGAWA, Masahiko TOMITA, Young Chung KIM
  • Publication number: 20170079515
    Abstract: An endoscope reprocessor invention includes: a medicinal solution tank configured to store medicinal solution; a concentration measuring portion arranged in the medicinal solution tank so that a permeation membrane is submerged in the medicinal solution; a gas generating portion including a vaporizing portion configured to vaporize a part of the medicinal solution to generate gas and arranged at a position where the gas that floats upward in the medicinal solution is in contact with the permeation membrane; and a controlling portion connected to the concentration measuring portion and the gas generating portion and configured to perform first control to drive the concentration measuring portion in a state that the gas generating portion is stopped and second control to drive the concentration measuring portion in a state that the gas generating portion is driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170027431
    Abstract: A separator unit is a cleaning auxiliary tool to be inserted into an air/water feeding cylinder. The separator unit includes a partition plate for partitioning an air feeding conduit side and a water feeding conduit side, and two elastic members in an air/water feeding cylinder. The two elastic members are arranged at an outer circumferential side of the partition plate. When an internal pressure on the air feeding conduit side corresponds to an internal pressure on the water feeding conduit side, the elastic members are spaced apart from an inner wall of the air/water feeding cylinder by a predetermined distance, and when one of the internal pressures on the air feeding conduit and the water feeding conduit becomes higher than the other, one of the elastic members is deformed by receiving the higher internal pressure and comes in close contact with the inner wall of the air/water feeding cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 9505038
    Abstract: An endoscope cleaning tube according to the invention includes a housing portion; a movable portion adapted to divide an inner part of the housing portion into a side of the fluid introduction port and a side of the fluid lead-out port and placed between a first position and a second position in the housing portion, the second position being located closer to the side of the fluid lead-out port than the first position; a pressure-receiving portion which, being equipped with a pressure-receiving surface placed at a position facing the fluid introduction port and adapted to receive pressure of the fluid, is adapted to pivot according to fluid pressure on the pressure-receiving surface; and a linking portion adapted to connect the movable portion and the pressure-receiving portion with each other and move the movable portion from the second position to the first position when the pressure-receiving portion receives the fluid pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9492066
    Abstract: A separator unit is a cleaning auxiliary tool to be inserted into an air/water feeding cylinder. The separator unit includes a partition plate for partitioning an air feeding conduit side and a water feeding conduit side, and two elastic members in an air/water feeding cylinder. The two elastic members are arranged at an outer circumferential side of the partition plate. When an internal pressure on the air feeding conduit side corresponds to an internal pressure on the water feeding conduit side, the elastic members are spaced apart from an inner wall of the air/water feeding cylinder by a predetermined distance, and when one of the internal pressures on the air feeding conduit and the water feeding conduit becomes higher than the other, one of the elastic members is deformed by receiving the higher internal pressure and comes in close contact with the inner wall of the air/water feeding cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20160236248
    Abstract: An endoscope cleaning tube according to the invention includes a housing portion; a movable portion adapted to divide an inner part of the housing portion into a side of the fluid introduction port and a side of the fluid lead-out port and placed between a first position and a second position in the housing portion, the second position being located closer to the side of the fluid lead-out port than the first position; a pressure-receiving portion which, being equipped with a pressure-receiving surface placed at a position facing the fluid introduction port and adapted to receive pressure of the fluid, is adapted to pivot according to fluid pressure on the pressure-receiving surface; and a linking portion adapted to connect the movable portion and the pressure-receiving portion with each other and move the movable portion from the second position to the first position when the pressure-receiving portion receives the fluid pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160022127
    Abstract: A separator unit is a cleaning auxiliary tool to be inserted into an air/water feeding cylinder. The separator unit includes a partition plate for partitioning an air feeding conduit side and a water feeding conduit side, and two elastic members in an air/water feeding cylinder. The two elastic members are arranged at an outer circumferential side of the partition plate. When an internal pressure on the air feeding conduit side corresponds to an internal pressure on the water feeding conduit side, the elastic members are spaced apart from an inner wall of the air/water feeding cylinder by a predetermined distance, and when one of the internal pressures on the air feeding conduit and the water feeding conduit becomes higher than the other, one of the elastic members is deformed by receiving the higher internal pressure and comes in close contact with the inner wall of the air/water feeding cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 8556799
    Abstract: A guide tube having a tube; a ciliary portion including many cilia inclined in a longitudinal direction of the tube, provided in an outer peripheral portion of the tube; and a vibration portion provided on the tube for vibrating the ciliary portion so as to move the tube in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu Iwasaki, Eiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8018825
    Abstract: To provide an optical recording medium of which mechanical properties and storage stability will not be impaired, and which will show little deterioration in signal properties even after being left to stand at high temperature under high humidity. An optical recording medium to perform recording/reading by means of blue laser, which has a value of 10 or less as obtained by “error rate after its environmental resistance test/error rate before its environmental resistance test” in error rates obtained before and after its environmental resistance test carried out by leaving the medium to stand for 500 hours at a temperature of 80° C. under a relative humidity of 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Takeshi Kuriwada, Tomokazu Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20100214901
    Abstract: To provide an optical recording medium of which mechanical properties and storage stability will not be impaired, and which will show little deterioration in signal properties even after being left to stand at high temperature under high humidity. An optical recording medium to perform recording/reading by means of blue laser, which has a value of 10 or less as obtained by “error rate after its environmental resistance test/error rate before its environmental resistance test” in error rates obtained before and after its environmental resistance test carried out by leaving the medium to stand for 500 hours at a temperature of 80° C. under a relative humidity of 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Esaki, Takeshi Kuriwada, Tomokazu Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20100152536
    Abstract: A guide tube having a tube; a ciliary portion including many cilia inclined in a longitudinal direction of the tube, provided in an outer peripheral portion of the tube; and a vibration portion provided on the tube for vibrating the ciliary portion so as to move the tube in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Tomokazu IWASAKI, Eiichi KOBAYASHI